Typographical machine.



a. s. KENNEDY. TYPOGBAPHiCALMACHINE. APPLICATION HLED SEPT. 18, 1915.

Patented July 191?.

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DAVID S. KENNEDY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB TO MERGENTI-IALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July at, 1917.

To ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID S. KENNEDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typographical Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to typographical machines, and more particularly to that class thereof known to the public under the name Linotype, and as illustrated for example, in the United States Letters Patent to O ltlergenthaler, No. 436,532. In machines of this class, it is common to make use of matrices having characters other than those represented in the keyboard. These extra or sorts matrices are inserted by hand into the matrix line in the course of composition, and are subsequently delivered by the distributer at a common point, from which they descend ordinarilyby gravity through a receiving tube into a pi-stick at the front of the machine, all as shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States to J. R. Rogers, No. 680,112.

In the more advanced and refined practice, machines have been devised wherein are employed a plurality of magazines, any one of which may be brought into use at will. Such plurality of magazines is intended to provide a larger and more varied assortment of characters, which in turn may again be supplemented by the employment of the additional. or sorts matrices that are more rarely used and are not contained within the magazines. These sorts matrices usually correspond more or less in face or style to the particular face or style carried by the magazines, and it is therefore desirable that they should be segregated as are the primary matrices in the magazines. To this end, therefore, I provide a plurality of pi-stacking devices to contain the sorts matrices of the different classes, in combination with means whereby any selected one thereof may be used conj ointly with the matrices in one or another of the magazines. It will oftentimes be also desirable to employ a plurality of such pi-sticks in connection with a single magazine, so that matter may be produced from the primary matrices in that magazine combined or mixed with the extra matrices in one or another of the pi-sticks.

The present arrangement, therefore, is not limited to the use of each pi-stick with a given magazine, but is such that any stick of the plurality may be used with a single magaz ne or with any one of a plurality of magazines.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 have shown my improvement merely in preferred form and by way of example and as applied to the specific style of machine mentioned, but obviously many changes and variations may be made therein, and in its mode of application, which will still be comprised within the spirit of my invention. Grenerally speaking, I desire it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any specific form or embodiment, except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a front view, partly broken away, of a plurality of pi-stacking devices constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2'2 of Fig. 1'; and

Fig. 3 illustrates a modification.

The sorts'matrices X are stored according to style or face in one or another of the pi-stackers A, three being shown, although a greater number might be employed if desired. In the present instance, these stackers are made up as an integral structure comprising a back plate A and a series of longitudinal shelves A constituting open sticks or holders, in which the matrices are advanced progressively against the yielding action of the resistants A by the rotary star wheels A in the customary way. T he matrices are returned to the pi-stackers A through a common delivery tube B con nected at its lower end to the back plate A In order to direct the matrices passing from the tube 13 into one or another of the stackers A, there is provided a chute or switch C (Figs. 1 and 2) arranged in a main throat A to swing into operative relation to one or another of the throats A leading to the respective pi-sticks, it being noted that the throats are closed at the front by the plate A. The chute C is carried by short pivot-pins C rotating in bearings in the front and back plates A and A respec' tively, the forward pin being provided with a crank arm C which is pivotally connected to an operating arm or link (.1 having a forwardly projecting handle 0 which is adapted to be engaged and held in lateral notches C of a fixed locking plate C the notches C communicating with a vertical slot C which permits the shifting of the handle from one to another thereof. From this construction, it will be seen that by placing the handle C in any selected one pf the notches C the chute C will be set in registration with the fixed throat A leading to the corresponding pi-stick and thus establish an operative connection between it and the delivery tube B. The pi-stacking devices are preferably arranged immediately adjacent to the keyboard, sothat the operator may shift from one to another freely and without delay.

Fig; 3 illustrates a modification wherein a plain switch D (instead of a chute) is used to direct the matrices passing through the main throat A from the delivery tube into one or another of the throats leading to different pi-sticks. The switch is fixed at its lower end to a short rock shaft D 'provided at the front with an operating handle D (shown in dotted lines) whereby the switch may be thrown to the left or right to control the course of the matrices. This construction is simple and might be preferred when but two pi-sticks are used.

As previously stated, I have shown my invention merely in preferred form and by way of example, and obviously many modifications and alterations therein will readily suggest themselves tothose skilled in the art without departing from its scope.

-Having thus described my invention, its construction and mode of operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. In a typographical machine, the combination with a plurality of open longitudinally extending pi sticks, arranged one above another in parallel relation, and each containing at its entrance end a rotary star wheel for advancing the matrices therealong, and a corresponding plurality of throats for delivering the matrices in front of the star wheels of the respective pi sticks and arranged side by side in the length of such sticks, of a common delivery tube for the several pi sticks fixed at its lower end, and an independently mounted intermediate chute or switch movably arranged so as to direct the matrices from the tube into one or another of the throats leading to the respective pi sticks.

2. In a typographical machine, the combination with a plurality of pi stackers each comprising an open stick, a star wheel for advancing the matrices therein, and a throat for delivering the matrices in front of the star wheel, of a common delivery tube leading from the distributerand fixed at its lower end, a main throat leading from the delivery tube and communicating with all the throats of the pi stackers, and a chute or switch located in the main throat and movably arranged so as to control the delivery of the matrices from the delivery tube to one or another of the pi stackers.

3. In a typographical machine, the combination with two pi stackers each comprising an open stick, a star wheel for advancing the matrices therein, and a throat for delivering the matrices in front ofthe star wheel, of a common delivery tube leading from the distributer and fixed at its lower end, a main throat leading from the tube and communicating with both of the throats of the pi stackers, and a movable plate pivoted at its lower threats of the pi stackers so that its upper end may be moved to one side or the other of the main throat and thus to deflect the entering matrices into one or the other of the pi stacker throats. 1

In testimony whereof, Ihave afiixed my signature.

. DAVID S. KENNEDY.

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